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Dragon Casa is a new spot in Far North Dallas with a grand opening scheduled for Oct. 10, one of the many recent restaurant openings we’re excited about. In the meantime, they had a soft opening last week. The brainchild of Southlake’s venerable Dragon House, this new place telegraphs its Chinese-Mexican fusion focus right there in the name: clever and direct.
One of the menu items that grabbed our attention was the Peking duck tacos. We love all things duck, so intrigued, we stopped in for dinner and tried them out.
Of course, traditional Peking duck, at least as it’s served here in the U.S., is already sort of taco-ish: roasted crispy-skinned slices of duck served with spring onions, cucumber and sauce, eaten with thin little pancakes providing an easy conduit to the mouth, so creating an Asian-Mexican taco mashup wouldn’t seem to be that big of a culinary stretch.
The tacos arrive three to an order in a bamboo steamer, and they are full of chunks and slices of aromatic duck—almost too much duck, if such a thing is possible. They are sauced slightly heavier than we’d normally prefer and accompanied by the traditional thin slices of spring onion and cucumber along with lime wedges, in your choice of corn or flour tortillas. We, of course, chose corn; we’re not animals.
The verdict? Pretty good. Sure, more crispy skin would have made us even happier, but at least you don’t have to order 24 hours in advance.
3355 E Trinity Mills Road, Suite 213; Monday–Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 5 –9:30 p.m.
